Re: Merge catalog-sig and distutils-sig

Donald Stufft <[email protected]> Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:32:16 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.catalog,gmane.comp.python.distutils.devel
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On Mar 28, 2013, at 4:04 PM, holger krekel <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 15:42 -0400, Donald Stufft wrote:
>> On Mar 28, 2013, at 3:39 PM, PJ Eby <[email protected]> wrote:
>>=20
>>> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Fred Drake <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Donald Stufft <[email protected]> =
wrote:
>>>>> Is there much point in keeping catalog-sig and distutils-sig =
separate?
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>>>> No.
>>>>=20
>>>> The last time this was brought up, there were objections, but I =
don't
>>>> remember what they were.  I'll let people who think there's a point
>>>> worry about that.
>>>>=20
>>>>> Not sure if there's some official process for requesting it or =
not, but
>>>>> I think we should merge the two lists and just make packaging-sig =
to
>>>>> umbrella the entire packaging topics.
>>>>=20
>>>> There is the meta-sig, but the description is out-dated:
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>>>>   http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/meta-sig
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>>>> and the last message in the archives is dated 2011, and sparked no
>>>> discussion:
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>>>>   http://mail.python.org/pipermail/meta-sig/2011-June.txt
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>>>> +1 on merging the lists.
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>>> Can we do it by just dropping catalog-sig and keeping distutils-sig?
>>> I'm afraid we might lose some important distutils-sig population if
>>> the process involves renaming the list, resubscribing, etc.  I also
>>> *really* don't want to invalidate archive links to the distutils-sig
>>> archive.
>>>=20
>>> All in all, +1 on not having two lists, but I'm really worried about
>>> "breaking" distutils-sig.  We're still going to be talking about
>>> "distribution utilities", after all.
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>> Don't care how it's done. I don't know Mailman enough to know what is =
possible or how easy things are. I thought packaging-sig sounded nice =
but if you can't rename + redirect or merge or something in mailman I'm =
down for whatever.
>=20
> I've moved lists even from external sites to python.org and renamed =
them
> (latest was pytest-dev).  That part works nicely and people can =
continue
> to use the old ML address.  Merging two lists however makes it harder
> to get redirects for the old archives.  But why not just keep =
distutils-sig
> and catalog-sig archives, but have all their mail arrive at
> a new packaging-sig and begin a new archive for the latter?
>=20
> holger
>=20
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>> Donald Stufft
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sounds good to me.

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